Social media went nuts on Wednesday night over a line of bright lights that appeared briefly in the sky over San Diego before vanishing.

Reports came from far and wide, with shaky footage uploaded to Youtube and blurry pics shared across Twitter giving us plenty of images, but little information to go on. What are they? We just knew we were going to be disappointed.

And … yes, sure enough, the Navy has since stepped in and ruined all the fun with their mundane explanation.

The excitement began around 8:20 pm, about an hour after the Sun dropped below the horizon.

About a dozen globular lights seemed to hang in the sky just to the west of the coastal southern Californian city.